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Why does Cygwin slow down after it has been running for a while?

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If I leave a cygwin shell (usually putty-cyg, but also true with xterm or the normal Cygwin bash shell) running for a while I tend to find that after a certain amount of time, it goes really really slowly. I assume this is some sort of interaction with another process, but I've been unable to ident…

Error Output

$ time ls
_viminfo test.txt

real    0m0.026s
user    0m0.030s
sys     0m0.015s

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Fix for: Why does Cygwin slow down after it has been running for a while?

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Process Monitor revealed that whenever Cygwin was doing something, it was trying to open every directory of the PATH variable. There were a couple of directories on a network drive on the path and I'm not on the network at the moment. It seems the p…

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